Senior Director, North America Business Accounting

Job Description
The Senior Director, North America Business Accounting is based in Foster City, CA, and will lead the accounting team for the North America (NA) business region. This position reports to the VP, NA Controller and will manage a team of 15 employees primarily located in Foster City, CA, Austin, TX and Bangalore, India. The role requires 3 days (Tues, Wed, Thurs) in Visa’s Foster City office. NA business activity represents more than 50% of Visa’s global business.
Essential Functions:
Oversee the monthly close process for all NA business activity including the completeness and accuracy of all journal entries, accounting reconciliations and flux analysis.
Ensure the accurate recording of all NA revenue transactions.
Act as the subject matter expert for internally developed software ensuring a streamlined process with business partners and accurate tracking of capitalized costs.
Lead all NA accounting for leases, fixed assets, and intangibles.
Develop close relationships across NA business functions such as Technology, Product, Sponsorship, Marketing, Client Service to ensure transactions are appropriately recorded.
Partner with Visa’s Center of Excellence (COE) in Bangalore and other controllership regions to standardize work processes across the Company.
Instill a culture of continuous improvement in a methodical, pragmatic and expeditious manner including automation of manual processes and controls and standardization of accounting or business processes. Use Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve Controllership activities.
Ensure SOX compliance by adhering to internal control requirements, maintaining updated documentation and providing recommendations as appropriate.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.